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president clinton was talking specifically. he said he was talking about young people that were in the pool that were four times above the poverty line. we're only talking about the individual market here, and we're only talking about people who didn't -- who had their insurance after 2010. but the idea this is somehow or another that's broad base -- by the way the individual market is only 5% of the total. let's be careful what we're throwing around here. people get their health insurance cancelled all the time. you want to tell me that there were no health insurance cancellations before obama care? that's absurd. some of the things we're saying on here don't stand up to basic scrutiny. >> i think, james, it's wonderful 30 million people will be covered with insurance but the way it was done is so horrific because it's forcing every one of those people basically on to two programs either medicare or forcing them into the private insurance system. it will increase the cost. the other great mistruth, obama said everybody would g
president clinton was talking specifically. he said he was talking about young people that were in the pool that were four times above the poverty line. we're only talking about the individual market here, and we're only talking about people who didn't -- who had their insurance after 2010. but the idea this is somehow or another that's broad base -- by the way the individual market is only 5% of the total. let's be careful what we're throwing around here. people get their health insurance...
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we cut spending under clinton and reagan and we did it after world war ii. we did it under calvin coolidge. in every case it was pro growth and private prosperity. let's get the job done asap. our cnbc contributors have some thoughts of their own. i want to talk about mr. costa, i want to go to mr. costa first. i want to hear about this big sequester news the president on the phone with john boehner and mitch mcconnell. i didn't even know he had their numbers. what's going on here. >> the relations between capitol hill republicans and president have been quite icy for the past few months but the president called mitch mcconnell and john boehner but according to my inside sources those calls were unproductive. impasse about the sequester continues. >> no deal? >> no deal happening. republicans don't say to the president we're not going to raise taxes regardless of the kind of political pressure you put on us and the scare tactics you have about the potential job losses. >> will we see last minute negotiating? >> i think so. it will go right up to that march 1
we cut spending under clinton and reagan and we did it after world war ii. we did it under calvin coolidge. in every case it was pro growth and private prosperity. let's get the job done asap. our cnbc contributors have some thoughts of their own. i want to talk about mr. costa, i want to go to mr. costa first. i want to hear about this big sequester news the president on the phone with john boehner and mitch mcconnell. i didn't even know he had their numbers. what's going on here. >> the...
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that is different than clinton, reagan, carter, you name it. we need to get him past that point of no negotiation. listen to republicans. we're throwing out a whole new proposal on the table right now. if he will come to table -- >> do you guys think it's extraordinary that it's breaking news that the two sides talk? that's breaking news today? >> it should not be. >> we could be holding out and saying let's shut down the government and have a negotiation about immigration reform. let's keep every -- let's default on our debt until we get gun control. that's not the position we're taking. nowhere in my lifetime have we come -- had this bad an effect on the economy on a debt limit bill because one side is using it as a last minute pressure point. >> congressman sherman, let me just be clear about this. you're saying that you would have used them as leverage if the president did not stop you from doing that? is that what you're saying? >> no. i don't believe in doing that. i applaud the president for not doing it. if only the republicans weren't
that is different than clinton, reagan, carter, you name it. we need to get him past that point of no negotiation. listen to republicans. we're throwing out a whole new proposal on the table right now. if he will come to table -- >> do you guys think it's extraordinary that it's breaking news that the two sides talk? that's breaking news today? >> it should not be. >> we could be holding out and saying let's shut down the government and have a negotiation about immigration...
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pathetic xanl rated witchhunt that moved from barack obama who now has been re-eleblged to hillary clinton and today, this is important, i hope you tell them, today. >> red card, yellow card. >> the end zone. >> i got to tell you, larry, today the republican party is running new online fundraising on benghaziment we have americans dead and they're politicizing it, raising money for it. it's wrong. it's politicizing. it comes from the republicans. they changed the story 15 times. >> and the irs together. that is leak you clike you can serious allegations. now, we've talked a lot on this program about how fracking has proud an oil boom here in the u.s. do you now how much of a surge this is for the economy as a whole? it's the backbone of the economy, a tremendous job creator. it's even financing state and energy independence. on its way, we will talk to an expert and get an idea of what it will do for stocks as well. that's next. please stay with us. "the kudlow report." . playing ] >>> welcome book to "the kudlow report." i'm larry kudlow. in this half hour, team obama and all their govern
pathetic xanl rated witchhunt that moved from barack obama who now has been re-eleblged to hillary clinton and today, this is important, i hope you tell them, today. >> red card, yellow card. >> the end zone. >> i got to tell you, larry, today the republican party is running new online fundraising on benghaziment we have americans dead and they're politicizing it, raising money for it. it's wrong. it's politicizing. it comes from the republicans. they changed the story 15...
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so we saw hillary clinton restart the button with russia's prime minister. we saw the president was making fun of romney's concerns about hostilities from russia. now listen to this. >> the 1980s are now calling for their foreign policy act. the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> all right. that was then. this is now. i want to know, what is it that turned president obama around and really strengthened his stance with vladimir putin? here now is former assistant secretary of defense, peter brooks, joining us is don jensen, senior fellow at john hopkins university center for transatlantic relations and leon aaron, director of studies at the american enterprise institute and author of ideals in the making of the russian revolution 1987 to 1991. okay. peter brooks, it's just you and me. one of the things i like about this -- correct me if i'm wrong -- it wasn't just the snowden episode, although that may have been the straw that broke the camel's back. if you listen to jay carney in his press briefing, there are a lot of other issues that have broken down
so we saw hillary clinton restart the button with russia's prime minister. we saw the president was making fun of romney's concerns about hostilities from russia. now listen to this. >> the 1980s are now calling for their foreign policy act. the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> all right. that was then. this is now. i want to know, what is it that turned president obama around and really strengthened his stance with vladimir putin? here now is former assistant secretary of...
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and john kerry well to the left of hillary clinton who was also recorded as rather hawkish as a senator. now hilda solis is resigning. not sure what that means, but as the president's moving further to the left in his second term. not a centrist. let's bring back karen finney, columnist for the hill. guy benson, and mark simone. guy, i think these appointments, all three of them, particularly, particularly hagel at defense, show a move to the left. what's your take? >> sure, i mean, of course they do, the president's a lefty, that's who he is. and now that he never has to face voters again, i think we'll see his administration drift even further to the left. i do see the lew appointment at least as an opportunity for republicans to highlight the fact that we have not had a federal budget in almost four years. and it is 100% the fault of democrats. a lot of americans don't know that. at least give guys like that a chance to really beat that drum. and one other thing, larry, i'm interested to see the labor department pick with solis on her way out, i think if you look at labor unions, the
and john kerry well to the left of hillary clinton who was also recorded as rather hawkish as a senator. now hilda solis is resigning. not sure what that means, but as the president's moving further to the left in his second term. not a centrist. let's bring back karen finney, columnist for the hill. guy benson, and mark simone. guy, i think these appointments, all three of them, particularly, particularly hagel at defense, show a move to the left. what's your take? >> sure, i mean, of...
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secretary of state hillary clinton and then the brazilian president. only two businesswomen made it into the top ten, jill abramson and facebook coo sheryl sandberg. so, what we want to know is who do you think is the most powerful woman in the world? to let us know, you can get in touch with us, e-mail worldwide@c.com, twitte twitter @cnbcwex or @rosswe or @rosswestgate. >>> plenty more to come in the second hour of "worldwide exchange." top tax officials face another hearing on capitol hill today as the irs scandal continues to distract the white house. our next guest says the controversy could derail obama's second-term agenda. all that and plenty more as well as we count down to bernanke going to capitol hill as well. "worldwide exchange" continues in just a few moments. [ male announcer ] i've seen incredible things. otherworldly things. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more t
secretary of state hillary clinton and then the brazilian president. only two businesswomen made it into the top ten, jill abramson and facebook coo sheryl sandberg. so, what we want to know is who do you think is the most powerful woman in the world? to let us know, you can get in touch with us, e-mail worldwide@c.com, twitte twitter @cnbcwex or @rosswe or @rosswestgate. >>> plenty more to come in the second hour of "worldwide exchange." top tax officials face another...
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i saw lanny davis, who was president clinton's lawyer, he's not some republican, saying that anybody who did not tell the president about this didn't have any business working in the white house. you know, this is a place where they would be better off to just go ahead and name an independent counsel. they're digging themselves in deeper. they're hurting their credibility every day saying, here's some new information. of course, we didn't know anything. >> all right. does it matter? it doesn't feel like anyone's really focused on -- on the details of this. is it really hurting their credibility, you think? why is the president so against an independent council? >> it is hurting their credibility. and the fact that you have to ask that question just speaking to how it hurts their credibility. why won't the president let somebody independent look at something? they say they're innocent. they say they didn't do anything wrong. but they don't want -- they want to investigate it themselves? it sort of reminds me of my children. >> right. so their agencies are going to investigate what wen
i saw lanny davis, who was president clinton's lawyer, he's not some republican, saying that anybody who did not tell the president about this didn't have any business working in the white house. you know, this is a place where they would be better off to just go ahead and name an independent counsel. they're digging themselves in deeper. they're hurting their credibility every day saying, here's some new information. of course, we didn't know anything. >> all right. does it matter? it...
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he served during the clinton passport file in 1992 and he was to probe the international brotherhood of teamters in 1997. gentleman, welcome. governor rendell, i want to go to you first on this, to me, as a former white house staff guy, i worked under reagan. you know that, i do not understand why the president wasn't given this information. i want to start here. i'm not making accusations. i'm not saying he had a darn thing to do with this. i'm not saying anybody in the white house has a darn thing to do with this. in terms of running the place, if the council gets the information and the chief of staff gets the information and the press secretary gets the information, how can the president not get the information? >> well, larry, it's a good question. let me start by saying there is no conspiracy here t. head of the irs at the time was an appointtee of president george w. bush. he wouldn't be a part of the conspiracy to help the obama administration. having said that, you are right. there is a pattern here. remember on the a.p. scandal the attorney general didn't inform the preside
he served during the clinton passport file in 1992 and he was to probe the international brotherhood of teamters in 1997. gentleman, welcome. governor rendell, i want to go to you first on this, to me, as a former white house staff guy, i worked under reagan. you know that, i do not understand why the president wasn't given this information. i want to start here. i'm not making accusations. i'm not saying he had a darn thing to do with this. i'm not saying anybody in the white house has a darn...
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and ceo of honeywell international and finally roger altman, former deputy secretary under president clinton. let's talk with buzz words we hear again and again, a balanced approach to balance and spend. people have their own views what balanced and fair means. you spend time talking to people inside the white house. what does that mean in practice? >> you go back over the past year, the word balance has really meant what is the long way to get long term fiscal debt reduction and fiscal responsibility between revenue and spending cuts. i think today that discussion of balance has actually migrated to one of also timing, the idea of what is good for the short term to get the recovery on track versus what is good for the long term, in terms of getting obviously debt to gdp to a manageable level. from my perspective, a balance today says recognizing that government has an important part, in terms of the short term keeping the recovery going. you saw last quarter, gdp flat. why? the biggest component of that, government spending, down a point and half. >> why don't we see then the obama administ
and ceo of honeywell international and finally roger altman, former deputy secretary under president clinton. let's talk with buzz words we hear again and again, a balanced approach to balance and spend. people have their own views what balanced and fair means. you spend time talking to people inside the white house. what does that mean in practice? >> you go back over the past year, the word balance has really meant what is the long way to get long term fiscal debt reduction and fiscal...
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and they said some things that would have affected even some 40 some bush appointments or even some clinton appointments, as well? >> yes. the ruling restricted the president's recess appointment power. it says if you read what the constitution says, he could only fill a vacancy with the recession appointment if the vacancy occurred during the recession. and then the appointment needs to be made during the recess. it's a straightforward application of the words of the constitution and that chicanery is so grossly inapplicable unless the president's own democratic senate majority leader was engaged somehow in chicanery in saying that the senate was in session, this same thing happens with the session every year. the session starts on january 3rd. the president made the appointments on january 4th. only the senate has the authority to say when it's in session and it explicitly started the session on january 3rd, not january 4th. >> so anything the nlb has been deciding on is maybe questionable at this point and there are some people say these guys need to resign immediately. i don't know whet
and they said some things that would have affected even some 40 some bush appointments or even some clinton appointments, as well? >> yes. the ruling restricted the president's recess appointment power. it says if you read what the constitution says, he could only fill a vacancy with the recession appointment if the vacancy occurred during the recession. and then the appointment needs to be made during the recess. it's a straightforward application of the words of the constitution and...
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>> i've always said if you want bill clinton's economy you've got to pay bill clinton's taxes. >> so why aren't republicans really, if they like tax cuts, if they like tax cuts, they got a huge amount that's not going to come out of the private economy and go to the government. they should be happy. >> i have said many times that republicans won the fight in january they just don't know it. and nobody -- washington is upside down. it's -- >> certainly is if we agree. >> well, but the -- they think that common political wisdom inside washington is that the president won and the republicans lost. the fact is, the republicans won an enormous victory. they stabilized taxes for middle class people at the bush tax rates for everybody below $400,000. and they took all that revenue off the table and we can't use it to balance the budget. the cults are going to have to be much deeper if you're ever going to get anywhere towards fiscal stability? >> does the market believe we're going over the sequester cliff? >> and does it care? >> does it matter? >> all of the above, i think, in some respec
>> i've always said if you want bill clinton's economy you've got to pay bill clinton's taxes. >> so why aren't republicans really, if they like tax cuts, if they like tax cuts, they got a huge amount that's not going to come out of the private economy and go to the government. they should be happy. >> i have said many times that republicans won the fight in january they just don't know it. and nobody -- washington is upside down. it's -- >> certainly is if we agree....
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clinton never got away with that. what makes this man different than everybody else? >> a different question. and this was something that becky raised earlier, is it acceptable -- and something that gene raised. is it acceptable. if the president called up john boehner and said, look, let's take a time-out. let's push this thing for three or four weeks and continue to negotiate during that period. >> they haven't been negotiating until now. >> is that a better alternative to this? are we any -- is there any better chance we get to a solution that way? >> i think it's been done four weeks ago, it would have been a great avenue to a solution. the question is, how much breakage has occurred between then and now that in effect will make it that much more difficult to bring people together? but people get brought together by other people who they perceive have a perception and an agreement as to what -- where to go. that hasn't been the case here. >> yeah, sam, i disagree with holding the nation up like this for the debt ceiling. but i understand it. i understand, i have t
clinton never got away with that. what makes this man different than everybody else? >> a different question. and this was something that becky raised earlier, is it acceptable -- and something that gene raised. is it acceptable. if the president called up john boehner and said, look, let's take a time-out. let's push this thing for three or four weeks and continue to negotiate during that period. >> they haven't been negotiating until now. >> is that a better alternative to...
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hillary clinton, bill clinton, the pope. was there a moment where you said that is really a tipping point? >> i think it was when we saw president obama and jack doing the president's first live tweet at the town hall a few years ago. tuning in to the news and seeing him do it with his own hand. it's the lesson of my book "140 characters," to see leaders leading by example, tweeting with their own hand, and those are the moments that won my heart when i see people with gravitas lending their voice to the system. that's what i imagined right away when i saw this thing being used. >> and finally, when you talk to -- we talked to a lot of young developers trying to do basically what you guys have done. what advice can you give them? do you believe this was all sort of a bunch of different factors dove tailing or can this be recreated on other fronts? >> great question. so, you know, twitter itself was the result of a hack-a-thon, an idea contest. odio, the company we came up with as this idea, was full of amazing entrepreneurs
hillary clinton, bill clinton, the pope. was there a moment where you said that is really a tipping point? >> i think it was when we saw president obama and jack doing the president's first live tweet at the town hall a few years ago. tuning in to the news and seeing him do it with his own hand. it's the lesson of my book "140 characters," to see leaders leading by example, tweeting with their own hand, and those are the moments that won my heart when i see people with gravitas...